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BUTTON.

No. 498,825. Patented June 6, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES E. S'WAIN AND YEATES REESE OONNER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND,ASSIGNORS TO THEMSELVES AND DAVID F. PENINGTON, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATIO1\ forming part of Letters Patent No. 498,825, dated June 6,1893.

Application filed August 25, 1892. Serial No. 444,076- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES E. SWAIN and YEATES REESE GONNER, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons; and we dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art towhichit appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to an improvement in buttons the object thereofbeing to provide a neat and efficient separable button adapted for useas a badge or for any other desired purpose, and the invention consistsin the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts,substantially as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating our invention: Figure 1 is aside elevationof our improved button. Fig. 2 is adetail view showing theseveral parts of the button detached from each other.

Similar letters of reference designate corre sponding parts throughoutboth figures of the drawings.

A denotes the knob or disk which forms the face of the button, said facebeing engraved, ornamentally shaped, or otherwise enfigured, or madeplain, accordingly as may be preferred or desired. The disk A isprovided on its rear side with a screw-threaded shank a, which may ormay not be integral with the disk A.

l3 designates the back piece or disk which is made separate from thefront knob and preferably smaller in diameter. This disk B is providedwith the preferable integral shank I), having a longitudinal passage I)through it. The shank b is externally and also internallyscrew-threaded. Said shank may be made of any desired size but will besufficiently large in diameter to permit of the arrangement of thepassage b therein. The shank bis designed to be screwed upon the shank aby causing the passage 1) to receive the shank a, thus enabling the twoseparable disks A and B to be connected together.

0 denotes a third intermediate disk or washer having preferably aboutthe same dikind of designation thereon.

ameter as the disk 13 and having a central in ternally-screw-threadedopening 0, which allows the disk C to be screwed upon the shank b andadjusted thereon, nearer to or farther away from the disk B. The washerC may be formed at its center with a flange 0', surrounding the internalscrew-threaded opening 0 and for the purpose of enabling a longer screwthread to be cutin the edge of the open ing so that the disk 0 may screwwith a better hold upon the shank d.

Our button is pre-eminently adapted for use as a badge button, althoughit may be used for any other purpose. It will be observed that in thepracticalemployment of it, the shank of the back disk will be passedthrough the button hole or opening from the rear and caused to projectfrom the front side and then the washer C will be screwed firmly thereonand down tightly upon that portion of the garment which is bound therebybetween the disks B and C. Afterward the front knob can be placed inposition by causing the shank a to enter the passage b in the shank 1).

Numerous slight details and changes may be made in the exactconstruction of the various parts of our improved button withoutdeparting from the invention and we reserve the liberty of making suchchanges and of.

employing any kind of material out of which to make the button and alsoof placing any It will be furthermore observed that in the use of thisbutton, numerous front knobs may be employed with the same back piece.Thus the back piece after it has been fixed in position will bestationary and can only be removed by detaehing the washer 0. Severalfront pieces may however be employed singly therewith. One can beremoved and another substituted at the pleasure of the wearer.

Having thus described ourinvention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described button consisting in the combination with a frontdiskAprovided on its rear side with a screw-threaded shank a, the backdisk B having a shank b with a longitudinal passage 12' therein adaptedto reeeive shank a, said shank b being externally and internally screwthreaded as shown, and an intermediate disk O similar to disk B andhaving a central internally-screw threaded opening 0 which allows it tobe screwed upon shank b and adjusted thereon toward or away from disk B,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof We aflix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

JAMES E. SWVAIN. YEATES REESE CONNER. Witnesses:

EDWARD DIGGINS, G. M. OUTLAND.

